Macbook Exchange?

I bought a macbook on 5/31. The day after I bought it, I put a DVD in and couldn't eject it until yesterday. I've read alot of problems about the supredrive doing that. It now makes a buzzing sound when I put a disc in, is that normal, I've only put one in and it wouldn't eject, so I don't know what normal sounds like. Also, when I shut down yesterday, the eject sign appeared on the screen briefly, but then the computer took about 10 sec to shut down, after the icons left and there was a blank screen. It's also crazy hot, way too uncomfortable. Applications are working fine though.

Two trains colliding huh? Well, that sucks. I don't want anything repaired, I was just thinking that since I had that disc problem and the heat issue, maybe I got one of those "bad ones." Would that be too difficult a reason for an exchange? Anyone on here work at an Aplle store?

Should I even bother taking it in? The disc came out and I put a bunch in since. But I can see this happening down the road. If I got the Apple care, would this be a problem that I would have to pay for in 2 years, or would Apple Care take care of it?

Should I even bother taking it in? The disc came out and I put a bunch in since. But I can see this happening down the road. If I got the Apple care, would this be a problem that I would have to pay for in 2 years, or would Apple Care take care of it?

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Does the disk play in other players? I had a Netflix DVD get stuck in my PB. It took a couple of hours for me to figure out how to get it out, there was a huge crack in it but it wasn't visible from the top. I always look at the bottom side before I put it in.

Anyway, it could have been an unreadable disk, try a bunch of different DVDs and if none of the others get stuck, you're probably fine.

I talked toa guy at the Apple store. He said I 2 options: 1. I can have a genius look at it and detrmine if they can replace the notebook. or 2. I can pay the 10% restocking fee, and exchange it for the 1.87 model, which I wanted to do, but not for a 10% charge.

I talked toa guy at the Apple store. He said I 2 options: 1. I can have a genius look at it and detrmine if they can replace the notebook. or 2. I can pay the 10% restocking fee, and exchange it for the 1.87 model, which I wanted to do, but not for a 10% charge.

Yeah. You think so? Has anyone had success with something like that? I was thinking that too. I assume they want my repeat business, but a large company like Apple usually doesn't give a ***** if they lose a customer.

OK. I decided that I'm going to beat the ***** out it tonight. I mean that I'm going to run a bunch of cd's, dvd's, apps, keep it on. See what happens. I guess I should keep it if it doesn't hold any cd's or anything. I don't have a noisy macbook and I'm a little nervous about getting a whiney or mooing one.

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